BRITAIN REMOVES BOXING COLOUR BAR
Received Sundav, 8.50 p.m. , LONDON, Sept. 7. The Boxing Board of Control has altered its rules to allow coloured boxers to contest British titles. A coloured boxer and his father must be British subjects. The new rule will allow Randolph Turpin, who is regarded as the oustanding middleweight of the last 10 years, to contest the championship. Turpin, who is aged 19, will not be able to contest the championship until he is 21. The new rule restricts the title to contestants who were born and normally domiciled in the United Ivingdom. The contestant's .father must have beeu a British subject at the time of the eontestant's birth and domiciled in the United Kingdom. The Evening Standard says the board while ending the colour bar thus introduced a new ban so that only boxers born in the United Kingdom can hold the British title.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 September 1947, Page 5
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